Illumination Works (ILW), a leader in user-centric digital transformation, is proud to announce that our Theia Automated Insight Generation pitch video is now accessible to all Department of War (DoW) organizations through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
Advance AI-Powered Decision Support Across the DoW
Selected from a highly competitive pool of innovators, Theia was recognized for its breakthrough capabilities, scalability, and mission impact potential across the DoW. This milestone highlights Illumination Works’ continued commitment to advancing AI-powered decision support for the defense community.
Theia transforms how organizations unlock value from their data by automating data labeling, connecting previously siloed information, and generating explainable insights grounded in authoritative sources. By dramatically reducing analyst burden and accelerating operational readiness, Theia empowers teams to make faster, smarter, and more confident mission-critical decisions.
We’re honored to contribute to the next generation of AI-enabled defense capabilities and excited to help drive innovation across the DoW ecosystem.
The future of defense AI implementation depends on more than LLM enablement; it depends on trusted, mission-ready enterprise knowledge from large historical document archives. Theia was designed to create that capability by autonomously curating information so organizations can focus on decisions, not data preparation. Theia is an AI enabler and we’re proud to see it recognized as Awardable through Tradewinds.
Unlock Mission Advantage Through AI-Ready Data
Without a prepared data environment, artificial intelligence (AI) cannot deliver mission advantage. Across the Department of War (DoW), critical information remains trapped in documents, imagery, technical manuals, and web sources that were never designed to support human interpretation and machine reasoning. Analysts spend valuable time locating and labeling data while enterprise AI initiatives struggle to scale. This is the gap Theia was built to close.
Accelerate Insights Through Autonomous Knowledge Creation
Developed by Illumination Works and proven in an Army Phase II SBIR, Theia creates AI-ready knowledge from fragmented data. Theia is a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6, multi-modal knowledge creator that autonomously fuses text, imagery, and other information into a living knowledge graph aligned with mission context.
Theia delivers an ensemble machine learning approach to automatically label, organize, and curate datasets for downstream analysis. Theia uses advanced natural language processing, self-supervised computer vision, and automated data curation pipelines to derive structured context for continuous integration into a mission-aligned knowledge graph. This process uncovers hidden relationships and dramatically reduces manual analysis and labeling.
Work Smarter with Theia’s Intelligent Knowledge Automation
Theia is a transformative force multiplier:
→ Speeds the time to identify data of relevance
→ Improves subsequent machine learning with curated and prelabeled data
→ Filters out data noise so analysts can focus on informative data to answer the questions at hand
→ Delivers explainable insights grounded in authoritative sources
→ Accelerates mission readiness
Learn More: Theia Video Pitch
→ Tradewinds Marketplace (available to government customers with a Marketplace account)
About Tradewinds Marketplace
Accelerating Procurement. The Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace is a digital repository of post-competition, readily awardable pitch videos that address the DoW’s most significant challenges in the AI/machine learning, data, and analytics space. All awardable solutions have been assessed through complex scoring rubrics and competitive procedures and are available to government customers with a Marketplace account. Government customers can create an account at www.tradewindai.com. Tradewinds is housed in the DoW’s CDAO.
From the beginning, our goal was to turn disconnected information into actionable intelligence through an intuitive user interface. The Theia application enables users to quickly and efficiently access the data most relevant to them. It is exciting to see Theia now awardable on the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace.
Contact Information
- Jan Turkelson | Senior Vice President | jan.turkelson@ilwllc.com | LinkedIn
- Janette Steets | Associate VP Defense Division | janette.steets@ilwllc.com | LinkedIn
About Illumination Works
Illumination Works is a trusted technology partner in user-centric digital transformation, delivering impactful business results to clients through a wide range of services including big data information frameworks, data science, data visualization, and application/cloud development, all while focusing the approach on the end-user perspective.
Established in 2006, the Illumination Works headquarters is in Beavercreek, Ohio. In 2020, Illumination Works adopted a hybrid work model and currently has employees in 24+ states and is actively recruiting.
